Doctor John wrote:
> At a guess that would be:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/17/linux_kernel_exploit/

Yes, but since that wasn't the point of my question and people might 
reasonably assume I'm bashing on Linux if I posted a link to it, I thought 
I'd omit it.  The question was why the compiler felt the need for *that* 
optimization in the first place. When would it ever be a good idea?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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